Heartfelt experiences about leaving their native countries and adjusting to a new life in Hawaii are a common thread entwining stories that have been written by students at Waipahu High School to ...

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A new study has examined the role of several cognitive functions in young students learning to write English, their second language. The study conducted a battery of cognitive tests, gauged the ...

The Department of English Language and Literature aims to teach all students to write and speak well and to read skillfully, thoughtfully and with pleasure. We offer many courses that stress literary ...

Rubrics aren’t going away anytime soon, but let’s not pretend they always help students or tackle the biggest problem in student writing. Rubrics give students criteria for how their grade will be ...

Our love of literacy is rooted in our personal experiences as students, and we both have lengthy histories in education, specifically with language arts. Though our lenses were different, we both saw ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. COURTESY PHOTO “Windows and Mirrors ” and “Holding On ” were the first two books written by Waipahu High School students in the ...